Bipolar Modulation of the Output of a 10-GW Pulsed Power Generator

Meng Wang (1) , Bucur M. Novac , Laurent Pecastaing (2) , Ivor R. Smith

1 Department of Physics [Berkeley]
2 SIAME - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur Appliquées à la Mécanique et au génie Electrique

A bipolar Blumlein former has been designed and successfully implemented as an extension to an existing 10-GW-Tesla-driven Blumlein pulsed power generator. The new system is capable of generating a voltage impulse with a peak-to-peak value reaching 650 kV and having a high-frequency limit of the bandwidth well in excess of 1 GHz. Constructional details are provided, together with experimental results and analysis using the 3-D software modeling of the bipolar former that provides the results in good agreement with experimental data. \textcopyright 2016 IEEE.

Domains: Physics [physics]

Meng Wang, Bucur M. Novac, Laurent Pecastaing, Ivor R. Smith. Bipolar Modulation of the Output of a 10-GW Pulsed Power Generator. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2016, 44 (10), pp.1971-1977. ⟨10.1109/TPS.2016.2569461⟩. ⟨hal-02153371⟩